Using MySQL with PHP on Heroku - php

Question

How do I upload my MySQL DB to Heroku for use with a PHP app? The only docs I found on Heroku are this:
Using ClearDB with PHP
Connecting to ClearDB from PHP is super easy, and merely requires the parsing of the CLEARDB_DATABASE_URL to get connected, like this:
<?php
$url=parse_url(getenv("CLEARDB_DATABASE_URL"));
$server = $url["host"];
$username = $url["user"];
$password = $url["pass"];
$db = substr($url["path"],1);
mysql_connect($server, $username, $password);
mysql_select_db($db);
?>
I don't understand how to fill the ClearDB with my data without an SSH connection, or how to create a database or how to connect to it?

Answer 1

From ClearDB's Developer Center FAQ:
For importing data into your MySQL database, we recommend that you use both the mysql command line client as well as the mysqldump database backup utility.
Assuming you have the connection information available, use the mysql and mysqldump utilities on your local machine to connect directly to ClearDB remotely and import the data. This other SO answer may help: How to copy a Database from one server to another server in PHP?
You can export a database dump with mysql_dump locally, and then given the username/password/host information from heroku config, you can use they mysql utility locally to import to the remote host, so something like this:
$ mysqldump --user=db1user --password=db1pass local_database > db.sql
$ mysql --host=remote_host --user=db2user --password=db2pass myschema < db.sql